Welcome to Tending through the Seasons series, where writers from various seasons of life share how they are tending their soul by the Word of God through their current season. Dr. Chizobam Idahosa is a wife, mother to three beautiful girls, and a dentist specialized in oral medicine. At the core of her identity, she sees herselfContinue reading “prayers of peace for seasons of change”
Author Archives: mariel
tilling with gratitude
As the sun was beginning to peek over the horizon this morning, I reached first for my hot coffee and once settled into my favorite chair I opened my gratitude journal. The gratefulness poured out through my pen with increasing ease I reflected on the weekend. I felt the lightening of my heart as theContinue reading “tilling with gratitude”
tending through the older seasons
Welcome to Tending through the Seasons series, where writers from various seasons of life share how they are tending their soul by the Word of God through their current season. Meet Susan Chamberlain Shipe. She’s been a writer since the age of eight when she and her neighborhood friend wrote, edited, published, and distributed The Manor News.Continue reading “tending through the older seasons”
a season of fresh entrusting
Life seasons flow through the calendar like water on the shore. We see some of them coming like gentle waves creeping in and some of them hit us from the backside, knocking the wind right out of us! We slowly built up to the season when my youngest son would graduate high school. It hadContinue reading “a season of fresh entrusting”
tending through a needy season
Welcome to Tending through the Seasons series, where writers from various seasons of life share how they are tending their soul by the Word of God through their current season. Meet Caitlin. Hi, I am Caitlin, writer, poet, mom, all around woman. I want to chat about the ways we can do ordinary things extraordinarily well. YouContinue reading “tending through a needy season”
tools for relearning gratitude
Remember to say ‘please’, ‘did you say thank you?’ is the mantra of most mothers of young children. teaching thanksgiving begins with a forced habit of gratitude and develops, by God’s grace into a lifestyle of thanksgiving. Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in HimContinue reading “tools for relearning gratitude”
tending through the reordering
Welcome to Tending through the Seasons series, where writers from various seasons of life share how they are tending their soul by the Word of God through their current season. Meet Sue Fulmore. She is a freelance writer and speaker, seeking to use words to awaken mind and soul to the realities of the present. Like aContinue reading “tending through the reordering”
soul-tending in summer
{five minute friday: summer} Summer. Typically the season of an overflowing garden, bright, red tomatoes and an abundance of jalapeños, just waiting to be picked for the next batch of salsa. This year has been different. I diligently prepped and planted in early spring, as usual. But then the late frost hit, covering the tomatoesContinue reading “soul-tending in summer”
how to settle into His joy
When we moved into our new house, two hours away from all that had been familiar for so many years, it took me several months to begin to settle into my surroundings. As much as I was excited to be living at the beach and in this town, even a short trip to get milkContinue reading “how to settle into His joy”
tending in the season of in-between
Welcome to Tending through the Seasons series, where writers from various seasons of life share how they are tending their soul by the Word of God through their current season. Meet Jana Fraley. She is a ranch wife and mom, Christian writer and blogger. She writes from a passion to encourage women in pursuing an active andContinue reading “tending in the season of in-between”